Milk-pail holder.



No. 648,469. Patented May l, |900.

W. H. TAYLOR.

Ml-LK4 FAIL HOLDER.

(Application' filed June 23, 1899.)

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' NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

VILLIAMII. TAYLOR, OF KEVVANEE, ILLINOIS.

. MILK-PAIL HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,469, dated May 1, V1900. Application led .Tune 23. 1899. Serial N0. 721,600. (No model.)

To al whom t may concern: Y

Be it known that I, WTILLIAM H; TAYLOR, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Kel wanee, in the county of Henry and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Milk- Pail Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in milk-pail holders.

One object of the present invention is to improve the construction of milk pail holders and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and eiiicient device adapted to suspend a milkpail between the knees of the operator to hold the same in convenient position to receive the milk and capable of ready adjustment to support the pail at the desired elevation.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character adapted to be readily applied to a milk-pail and being capable of being quickly detached from the same.

Furthermore, the invention has for its object to provide means for securing the milkpail holder to a milk-pail, so that the latter may be carried by its bail. i

The inventionconsists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a milk-pail holder constructed in accordance with this invention Vand shown applied to al milk-pail. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device detached. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view f one side of the device. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view of the same. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail perspective views of the clamping-plates.

Like numerals of reference designate corre,

sponding parts in all the ligures of -th'e drawings.

l designates a hoop or band adapted to enf circle a milk-pail 2 near the upper edge thereof and composed of two semicircularsections having their terminals 3 extended outward to form arms and arranged between clamping-plates 4. and 5, disposed in lpairs at opposite sides of the milk-pail, which is provided with the ordinary .bail 6.

plates 4. and 5 are provided at their upper, lower, and outer edges with marginal flanges The clamping" arms 3. The outer bolt of each pair of clamping-plates is provided with a winged nut 9, and it passes through a depending vertical shank 10 of an outwardly-extending horizontal arm 1l, arranged at each side of the milk-pail, and these arms,which are disposed horizontally, are adapted to rest upon the knees of the operator, whereby the milk-pail is suspended therefrom and issupported ina convenient position to receive the milk. The plate 5 of each pair is provided at its outer face with inner and outer lugs or projections 12, arranged in pairs and located at the inner and outer edges of the shank 10, and the slot 13 thereof permits the shank to be moved verticallyto adjust the supporting-arm 11 to the proper position relative to the upper edges of the pail, and when the nut 9 is tightened the L-shaped support formed by the arm and the shank is rigidly secured to the hoop or band. By this construction the pail may .be raised and lowered between the legs of the operator, so that it will rest entirely clear of the ground.

The upper and lower flanges of the clamping-plates 5 are provided with notches 14, adapted to receive the outer sides 15 of substantially U -shaped springs 16,which are provided at their bottoms or bends with springcoils 17 and which have engaging coils 18 located at the upperterminals of their inner sides and adapted to spring over the upper edges of the pail, whereby the device is securely locked on the same and is supported in such a mannerthat the pail and the milk! pail holder may be carried bythe bail 6. The outer sides 15 of the springs are clamped be-V tween Vthe plates,which have their inner porsions 19 di'verging to provide a .space or re-v cess for the reception of the inner sides of the springs, whereby the latter are adapted to be moved inward and outward to engage their upper coils 18 with the upper edges of the pail and to disengage them therefrom. The upper coils form convenient shoulders for engaging the upper edge of the pail,which lies in the'recessbetween the coil 18 and the IOO inner side of the spring, and the said coils 18 are adapted to be readily grasped when `it is desired to spring the same outward to remove the device from the pail.

The invention has the following advantages: The milk-pail holder, which is simple, inexpensive, strong, and durable, is adapted to bereadily attached to and removed from a milk-pail, and it is capable of suspending the latter between the knees of the operator to hold the pail inconvenient position for re` ceivingythe` milk. The L-shaped supports are vertically adjustable to arrange the pail at the desired elevation, and the springcatches which detachably secure the device to a pailenable the latter and themilk-pail holder to be carried by the bail of the pail.

Changes in the form, proportion, size, and the minor' details of constructionA within the scope of the appended claims' may be resorted to without departing` from the spirit or sacricingany of the advantages of this of va receptacle, andv fastening devices con-A invention. l, VWhat is claimed is- I ,25

l. A milk-pail holder comprising a-hoop or band composed of sections having outwardlyextending arms formed by bending'their terminals outward, catches mounted between the arms, and. supports secured to the latter, substantially as described; v

2. A milk-pail holder comprising a hoop or band provided with supports to rest u pon the knees of the operator, and composed of sec- 4 tions having their terminals bent outward to form arms, catches arranged between thearms and adapted to engage the upper edge necting the arms and securing the catches in position, substantially as described.

y A milk-pail holder comprising a hoopvol" the presence of 2 ,i Y .Y 648,469

band composed of sections having outturned ends, clamping-plates engaging thesaid ends, and supports mounted on the clam ping-plates, substantially as described.

l. A milk-pail holder comprisinga hoop or band composed of sectionshaving outturned ends, clamping-plates provided at their edges ,with marginal flanges receiving the ends of the hoop or'band, lugs extendingfrom the clamping-plate, and supports having shanks adj ustably secured to the plates and arranged between the lugs, substantially as described. 5. A milk-pail holder comprising a band having outbent terniinals forming arms, a fastening device connecting the arms, and

4the substantially U-shaped spring operating sides of the springs operating in the said recesses and arranged to engage the upper edges of a receptacle, and supports mountedon the plates, substantially as described.

-In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my ownl I have'hereto affixed my signature i-n two witnesses. v WILLIAMy H. TAYLOR. Witnesses:

GEO. F. WILSON, LAURA M. WrLsoN.h 

